One of Gustave Courbet's most controversial nudes, "The Origin of the World" will be the centrepiece of a major retrospective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CORRECTS YEAR TO 1866, NOT 1966-This undated photo taken by Nadar and provided by the BNF (Bibilotheque Nationale de France) shows ...

From Carrington and Renoir to Goldin, Rousseau and Calder — plus the legacy of chiaroscuro and a rare meeting of Michelangelo and Rodin also illuminating the City of Light. For Valentine’s Day, we ...

After finally agreeing to teach painting, Gustave Courbet brought a cow – rather than a human – to model for his class. The French artist’s conviction that the "living art’’ he sought to paint ...

Courbet described the man in his Wounded Man (1844–54) portrait as a wounded duelist "in his death throes." courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Courbet's sisters served as models for the women ...

A twentysomething woman sits down in front of Gustave Courbet's "Origin of the World" (1866), pulls up her dress, splays her legs, and shows her vulva, clitoris, and possibly part of her vagina to the ...

Gustave Courbet claimed to paint only “real and existing things,” yet an 1864 photograph of his studio suggests otherwise. In it, a life-sized female effigy sits propped against the wall. Not even ...

Visitors to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris often encounter a startling sight. While browsing the section of the gallery devoted to the works of French Realist artist Gustave Courbet, they'll come across ...

PARIS (AP) — She was a courtesan who relied on financial support from rich men —but preferred the company of women— and died with a reputation as an honorable patroness of orphans. These are some of ...

PARIS (AP) — She was a courtesan who relied on financial support from rich men —but preferred the company of women— and died with a reputation as an honorable patroness of orphans. These are some of ...